Myanmar junta
'Living in a dark era': one year since Myanmar's coup
Almost 1,500 civilians have been killed and over 11,000 arrested in its ongoing crackdown, according to a local monitor, with rights groups accusing junta...
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Myanmar to free more than 5,000 jailed for anti-coup protests: junta chief
A total of 5,636 prisoners will be freed to mark the Thadingyut festival later in October, Min Aung Hlaing said, days after he was excluded from a regional summit over his government's commitment to defusing the bloody crisis.
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Myanmar junta chief says new elections will be held in two years
The country has been in turmoil since the army ousted the civilian leader in February, launching a bloody crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 900 people according to a local monitoring group.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi back in junta court on sedition charges
A mass uprising in Myanmar against a February military putsch has been met with a brutal crackdown that has killed more than 870 civilians, according to a local monitoring group.
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Myanmar junta leader arrives in Moscow for security conference
Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing left the capital Naypyidaw Sunday on a special flight to attend the Moscow Conference for International Security, state-run MRTV said.
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Myanmar protesters wear flowers to mark Suu Kyi's birthday
Flowers tucked into a bun have long been a signature look of Suu Kyi, who turned 76 on Saturday.
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Junta trial of Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets under way
The junta has brought an eclectic raft of charges against the Nobel laureate, including claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and violated a colonial-era secrecy law.
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Junta trial of Myanmar's Suu Kyi to hear first testimony
The junta has brought an eclectic raft of charges against the Nobel laureate, including claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and violated a colonial-era secrecy law.
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Trial of Myanmar's Suu Kyi to begin next week
The junta has hit Suu Kyi, 75, with a string of criminal charges. The most serious alleges that she violated the country's colonial-era Official Secrets Act. Her trial will start on June 14 and is expected to wrap up by July 26, according to her legal team.
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Anti-coup rebels say six dead in Myanmar clashes
Some in the anti-junta movement have set up local militias armed with homemade weapons to protect their towns from security forces - which have killed at least 790 civilians according to a local monitoring group.
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Myanmar's post-coup civilian death toll climbs past 700
On Saturday a local monitoring group said security forces gunned down and killed 82 anti-coup protesters the previous day in the city of Bago, 65 kilometres northeast of Yangon.
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Myanmar crackdown death toll passes 500
World powers have ramped up their condemnation of the military's campaign against the anti-coup movement that is demanding the restoration of the elected government and the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar junta frees 600 detainees, including AP photographer
The regime has unleashed a deadly wave of violence as it struggles to quell nationwide protests against the 1 February ouster and arrest of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar junta defends crackdown, vows to stop 'anarchy'
The streets of towns and cities across the country have seen chaotic scenes for weeks as security forces clash with protesters demanding the restoration of democracy and the release of Suu Kyi.
